Best #2s in the UK Singles Chart - that should have been #1?

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• Aura101 Posts: 8,327

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  15/08/14 - 19:00 #2

  Spice Girls - Stop

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• Fanntastik Posts: 12,310

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  15/08/14 - 19:02 #3

  I Believe in You, Confide in Me, Love at First Sight, and Better the Devil You Know by Kylie. Before I got into charts I thought they all hit #1 lol so they should have been #1.
  
  Also Ray of Light by Madonna too.

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• Neil_N Posts: 6,026

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  15/08/14 - 19:09 #4

  Some good choices here people

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 846

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  15/08/14 - 19:20 #5

  Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
  Adele - Chasing Pavements

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 846

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  15/08/14 - 19:21 #6

  Britney Spears - Piece Of Me

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• Mark-Anthony Posts: 572

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  15/08/14 - 19:35 #7

  Little Mix DNA (though it was #3)
  its the way you make me feel - steps

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• zackai48 Posts: 800

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  15/08/14 - 20:39 #8

  It has to be Strawberry Fields Forever/ Penny Lane (double A side) by The Beatles. It was a travesty that the greatest single ever released never got to the top spot.

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• Luner13 Posts: 2,968

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  15/08/14 - 20:57 #9

  Aura101 wrote: »

  Spice Girls - Stop

  
  That one brings to mind
  
  Geri Halliwell - Look At Me
  
  I remember she only missed out on the #1 as her record company never distributed two formats for the single only one therefore Boyzone beat her (they had the regular two CD/cassette formats)
  
  If she had had two formats she'd have likely had five consecutive number 1 singles on her own - quite a feat.

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• Micknsiv Posts: 187

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  15/08/14 - 21:13 #10

  Oasis had a few.
  Wonderwall
  Roll With It
  Stand By Me
  Stop Crying Your Out
  Little by Little
  Let There Be Love

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 8,510

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  15/08/14 - 21:17 #11

  Kayleigh, was kept off the top by a charity single.. hate these things

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 8,510

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  15/08/14 - 21:18 #12

  Also I much preferred Vicky Beckhams song to the Sophie Ellis Bexter shitte

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• Hound of Love Posts: 80,072

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  15/08/14 - 21:21 #13

  Temptation - Heaven 17
  
  What Have I Done To Deserve This? - Pet Shop Boys/Dusty Springfield
  
  Mirror Man...and (Keep Feeling) Fascination - Human League
  
  Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy - Kid Creole & the Coconuts
  
  Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics
  
  Upside Down - Diana Ross
  
  Milkshake - Kelis
  
  Good call from Fanntastik, with Madonna's Ray Of Light.

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• SaddlerSteve Posts: 4,325

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  15/08/14 - 21:40 #14

  Micknsiv wrote: »

  Oasis had a few.
  Wonderwall
  Roll With It
  Stand By Me
  Stop Crying Your Out
  Little by Little
  Let There Be Love

  
  Stand By Me was released a few weeks after Princess Diana died. It was kept off the top spot by that awful Candle In The Wind re-release!

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• BRITLAND Posts: 3,443

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  15/08/14 - 21:46 #15

  The most recent one for me would be All Of Me by John Legend, nice to have a piano ballad top the chart instead of the average garbage club track dominating this year

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• Mark-Anthony Posts: 572

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  15/08/14 - 21:46 #16

  Use somebody - kings of leon
  gold - spandau (however you spell it) ballet

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• TreyC Posts: 707

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  15/08/14 - 21:47 #17

  Anastacia - Left Outside Alone

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• Hound of Love Posts: 80,072

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  15/08/14 - 21:56 #18

  Groove Is In The Heart - Deee Lite
  
  Justified & Ancient - KLF/Tammy Wynette
  
  Push It - Salt & Pepa

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• FMKK Posts: 32,074

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  15/08/14 - 22:07 #19

  I'm pretty certain that Brown Sugar by the Stones only got to No.2 in the UK, though it was top of the US chart. That would definitely been a worthy chart-topper.

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• AudioRebel Posts: 32,201

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  15/08/14 - 22:16 #20

  My picks from 1990 - 1999
  
  1990 : Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
  1991 : Seal - Crazy
  1992 : Ce Ce Peniston - Finally
  1993 : Haddaway - What Is Love ?
  1994 : Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
  1995 : Pulp - Common People
  1996 : Bluetones - Slight Return
  1997 : Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
  1998 : Steps - One For Sorrow
  1999 : Offspring - Why Don't You Get A Job ?
  
  All poptastically, lyrically-blessed songs deprived of a UK #1.

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• AudioRebel Posts: 32,201

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  15/08/14 - 22:20 #21

  FMKK wrote: »

  I'm pretty certain that Brown Sugar by the Stones only got to No.2 in the UK.

  
  
  Yup, it was cruelly kept off the UK #1 by ' Dawn - Knock Three Times '.

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• FanFromHolland Posts: 5,987

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  15/08/14 - 22:23 #22

  Moves Like Jagger.
  It was stuck at #2 for 7 weeks, behind Example's Stay Awake, Pixie Lott's All About Tonight, , 1D's What makes You Beautiful, Dappy's No Regrets, Sak Noel's Loca People, Rihanna's We Found Love from which the bolded ones are flops in comparison to MLJ

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• Tejas Posts: 5,027

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  15/08/14 - 22:37 #23

  FanFromHolland wrote: »

  Moves Like Jagger.
  It was stuck at #2 for 7 weeks, behind Example's Stay Awake, Pixie Lott's All About Tonight, , 1D's What makes You Beautiful, Dappy's No Regrets, Sak Noel's Loca People, Rihanna's We Found Love from which the bolded ones are flops in comparison to MLJ

  
  Good call! Moves Like Jagger outsold every one of those songs in the long run though, so I guess Maroon 5 had the last laugh.

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• Hav_mor91 Posts: 17,183

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  15/08/14 - 22:49 #24

  Kylie Minogue- On A Night Like This, Love At First Sight
  Charlote Church- Crazy Chick
  La Roux- In For The Kill
  Rihanna- SOS, Unfaithful, Rude Boy
  Katy Perry- Teenage Dream

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• FanFromHolland Posts: 5,987

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  15/08/14 - 23:01 #25

  Hav_mor91 wrote: »

  Katy Perry- Teenage Dream

  
  It got outsold by the far superior Start Without You, so not really

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• Hav_mor91 Posts: 17,183

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  15/08/14 - 23:12 #26

  FanFromHolland wrote: »

  It got outsold by the far superior Start Without You, so not really

  
  It was outsold by Olly Murs and only just it still sold 86,000 copies in it's opening week .

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